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Nineteen plaques will be handed out Saturday, March 23 at The Chronicle’s 28th Annual Community Service Gala. Accepting them will be well-deserving local men and women whose contributions have created a better city, state, nation and, in some...

The Ministers Conference of Winston-Salem and Vicinity has joined the call to action over the countywide dip in property values. Ministers are supporting a multi-pronged plan that includes asking local residents to appeal their lowered...

The leader of the unstoppable Winston-Salem State University football program and the mayor’s right-hand woman have been selected to receive the top honors at this year’s Chronicle Community Service Awards Gala. Coach Connell Maynor’s Man of the...

The 2013 National Black Theatre Festival season will officially kickoff on Monday (March 11) when officials announce the celebrity co-chairs for this year’s festival. The public is welcomed and encouraged to attend the announcement, which will...

More than 200 people attended “Showcase of Song: An African-American Cultural Celebration” on Tuesday, Feb. 26 at the Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Coliseum. The Black History Month program was sponsored by the Winston-Salem Human Relations...

Burke Street Pizza, 1140 Burke St., celebrated its 10th anniversary on Feb. 19. The eatery has been a local favorite for many years, winning the “Best Pizzeria in Winston-Salem” award in Smitty’s Notes Reader Poll from 2007-2012. Since opening...

Fire Department honors those who blazed the path The Winston-Salem Fire Department kept up what has become a Black History Month tradition last Friday, honoring former African American firefighters who paved the way. This year’s honorees...

Those of you who are still election weary from last year may not be pleased that another round of contests will be decided this year. Unfortunately, many don’t hold municipal elections in the same high regard as presidential, senatorial and...

Hope, the pillar on which Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. built many a sermon, was a recurring theme Monday morning at the prayer breakfast The Chronicle has held each MLK Day for the past 14 years. It was manna from heaven for the more than 1,000...

On Jan. 22, the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) Program of Forsyth County will reopen its Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) Free Tax Preparation service. Nine VITA tax preparation sites will operate throughout the county during tax season....

This year’s Chronicle Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Prayer Breakfast will take a sharp detour from past events. Chronicle Publisher Ernie Pitt says it’s a turn for the better. “I’m excited about this year’s breakfast because I think...

Mayor Allen Joines says that he is still in talks with Forsyth Medical Center and Wake Forest Baptist Health about the possibility of the two hospitals helping to underwrite the cost of operating limited Winston-Salem Transit Authority routes on...

For Sgt. Kevin Riley, joining the U.S. Army seven years ago felt more like a calling than a career choice. “I was a mechanic before I joined the Army. I woke up on my 21st birthday, and I don’t know what it was; I just felt a higher calling,”...

Quality Education Academy (QEA) held a groundbreaking ceremony on Nov. 1 to mark the beginning of construction of a 36,000 square-foot addition to the QEA campus, which sits near the corner of Carver School Road and Lansing Drive. Mayor Allen...

Hundreds of trees planted in East Winston City-sponsored Community Roots Day is more popular than ever. The annual tree planting program, which is celebrating its 20th anniversary, had a record turnout Saturday. Hundreds of volunteers...

When the Winston-Salem Chapter of the Black Panther Party was founded 43 years ago, the city was a very different place. Party members who fought for better conditions, services and treatment for African Americans faced persecution, harassment...

WSSU kicking off yearlong slate of anniversary events tomorrow Winston-Salem State University will embark tomorrow on a yearlong celebration of its 120th anniversary. From its origins in a one-room schoolhouse, where founder Dr. Simon...